Multiple space agencies will send missions to the moon this decade and the next, with plans to establish infrastructure that ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

Elliptical galaxies are some of the oldest types of galaxies in the universe. They formed relatively quickly after the Big ...

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For example, the European Space Agency's Planck mission, a space telescope launched to observe the cosmic microwave background, returned data that points to an age of 13.787 billion years.

Distant quasars may hold the key to spotting elusive gravitational waves—and revealing hidden dimensions of the universe.

Scientists have found a neutrino that could come from a gamma-ray burst, an active black hole or a collision between a cosmic ...

Scientists are using cosmic distortions in light to test a bold idea: that the Universe might not be as symmetrical as we’ve ...